They have been accused of being selfish and unpatriotic for opposing fracking
despite living in large houses and consuming lots of energy.

Now residents of the village at the centre of the fracking debate are trying
to overcome the impression that they are Nimbys by making their community of
760 homes self-sufficient in electricity. They plan to place thousands of
solar panels on roofs around the village, including the local primary school
and village hall.

Thousands of people, most of them outsiders, took part in protests in Balcombe
in Sussex last summer as Cuadrilla, the company trying to kickstart a